knowbotiq &

Nina Bandi (Eds)

Christoph Merian Verlag

Swiss

Psychotropic

Gold

Switzerland plays a central role in the global commodity trade with gold and especially in its refining. Having fueled early modern industrialization as well as contemporary finance, Swiss trading and refining activities have influenced vivid cultural, affective and moral economies. They have contributed to Swiss wealth, but also to national narratives of independence, safety and white supremacy. The volume follows the entanglements of the global metabolism of gold by tracking down the elusive and often invisible paths of molecules, affects and violence: Swiss Psychotropic Gold. More...

For more than three centuries, Swiss commodity trade has been caught up in colonial, and later in postcolonial and neoliberal entanglements. Having fuelled early modern industrialisation as well as contemporary finance, Swiss trading activities have influenced vivid cultural, affective and moral economies. They have contributed to Swiss wealth, but also to national narratives of independence, safety and white supremacy. Yet, public debate on colonial involvement is almost absent. The Swiss mythology of neutrality transforms the often violent and “dirty” material complexities of mining and trading into an opaque and orderly form of technocracy, discretion and virtual finance. Less...

Swiss

Psychotropic

Gold


250pg

148 x 210mm

  • Publisher
  • Christoph Merian Verlag

  • Editors
  • knowbotiq

  • Nina Bandi

  • Contributors
  • Adji Dieye

  • Nina Bandi

  • Elke Bippus

  • Yolanda Ariadne Collins

  • Fundación Mareia

  • Gitanjali Dang

  • Anna Frei

  • Ayesha Hameed

  • Rohit Jain

  • knowbotiq

  • Angela Melitopoulos / Angela Anderson

  • Margarida Mendes

  • Johannes Paul Raether

  • Gerald Raunig

  • Jordy Rosenberg

  • Christoph Schenker

  • Jakob Tanner

  • Ira Terzol jr

  • Füsun Türetken

  • Yvonne Volkart

  • Design
  • Studio Es

  • Publisher
  • Christoph Merian Verlag

  • Editor
  • knowbotiq

  • Nina Bandi

  • Contributors
  • Adji Dieye

  • Nina Bandi

  • Elke Bippus

  • Yolanda Ariadne Collins

  • Fundación Mareia

  • Gitanjali Dang

  • Anna Frei

  • Ayesha Hameed

  • Rohit Jain

  • knowbotiq

  • Angela Melitopoulos / Angela Anderson

  • Margarida Mendes

  • Johannes Paul Raether

  • Gerald Raunig

  • Jordy Rosenberg

  • Christoph Schenker

  • Jakob Tanner

  • Ira Terzol jr

  • Füsun Türetken

  • Yvonne Volkart

  • Design
  • Studio Es

Anna Frei, Nina Bandi

Swiss Psychotropic Gold Refining – a Molecular Listening Session

Aud

  • Live-listening performance:

  • 38 MIN

  • Texts by:

  • Nina Bandi

  • Mixing & editing:

  • Anna Frei, fred hystère

Gold, quantum physics and sweeping the batea. Go and see, look for it, search for it, listen carefully to what you can sense, trace; smell it, taste it, touch it; ... in the public space, in the aesthetic undergrounds, in the materialities, in the dust, the smoke, the shining that surrounds us.

Fundación Mareira

Oro

Vid

  • Video:

  • 2 MIN 19 SEC

  • Directors:

  • Paula OG, Beaker Sanchez

Due to the situation to the depressing state of the Atrato River it has become necessary to speak about and defend its rights. This River Atrato, its basin, and its tributaries are not in ideal condition. The communities and the people who live in the river who are part of the river who can be found in the brooks and streams of the rivers that we too will not be in the best of situations.

Ayesha Hameed

A Transatlantic Periodic Table

Aud

  • Sound piece:

  • 17 MIN

  • Sound design:

  • Ayesha Hameed, William Saunders

Glass, pearl, sugar, iron, bone and gold – materials of the transatlantic slavetrade release traces of their past into the present. Traces of processes of extraction from the soil and from the signifying of life. A factual, corporeal and poetic encounter through stories, museums, archives and the sea itself.

knowbotiq

The Voice of Matter

Vid

  • Video:

  • 6 MIN 24 SEC

  • Sound:

  • Anna Frei/fred hystère

  • Voice:

  • Julia Haenni

Me as super-commodity / me, libidinous gift, not being separated / me as bodies, female, the thing / me regulator of body temperature / negotiating ownership on women's bodies / creole gold longing for security / circulations anew

knowbotiq

Swiss Psychotropic Gold, Molecular Refinery

Vid

  • Video;

  • Sound:

  • knowbotiq, Anna Frei/fred hystère

How can Gold be documented at all and positioned in the round dance of discourse? What eludes our very western material construction of reality? What rests circulating across the techno-spheres?

Angela Anderson

We Are Not Activists

Txt

Download

  • Reprinted from:

  • Ashkan Sepahvand (ed.), Elements for a World Series – Water: Waste, Toxicity, Corruption, Contamination (Beirut, Lebanon: Sursock Museum 2016)

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."

Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabekwe, founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project

Contact

info (at) knowbotiq.net

About

knowbotiq (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler) has been experimenting with forms and medialities of knowledge, political representations and epistemic disobedience. In recent projects they are investigating and enacting political landscapes and inhuman geographies with the focus on algorithmic governmentalities, libidinous economies and postcolonial violence.
Nina Bandi is a political philosopher. Based in Zurich and Vienna, she works on questions of non/representation and the relation between bodies, technology, and materiality from a feminist and postcolonial perspective.

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